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returntothepit >> discuss >> Saw II by litacore on Oct 28,2005 11:53am
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toggletoggle post by litacore   at Oct 28,2005 11:53am edited Oct 28,2005 11:55am
alright, alright

the only ending that pissed me off more than the ending in the first 'Saw' was 'High Tension'

but this installment looks fairly interesting. Who's goin'?
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'Saw 2'
Reviewed by Gregory Kirschling

If you had only a few seconds to decide, would you cut your own eyeball out with a razor to save your face from getting squished in by a head-mounted, time-sensitive, bear-trap contraption made up of a hundred rusty nails?

Neither would the poor fella in the first frazzled minutes of "Saw II," a sequel that delivers another round of the kind of elaborate Rube Goldberg shocks that made the first movie a surprise hit last year. The contest is close, but "Saw II" is just barely a better B flick than "Saw." It wins by a hair wire thinner than the one that trips the blades that slice off a blindsided SWAT guy's feet.

The killer of the series remains Jigsaw, a sicko with engineering capabilities limited only by how far the new set of screenwriters is willing to beggar belief. In the first film, he was mostly unseen, represented by a bulbous, papier-mache-type puppet with red swirlies painted on its cheeks -- that is, until a last-second reveal that felt like one of the biggest "whatever!" gyps in surprise-ending cinema. This time the puppet cameos early on and then kindly takes a powder.

As the droopy-lidded maniac in the flesh, Tobin Bell is, for all the film's gewgaws, "Saw II's" sturdiest horror, a Terence Stamp look-alike who calls to mind a seedy General Zod lazily overseeing the universe from his evildoer's lair. Jigsaw's grand plan involves sticking eight people in a cavernous, dilapidated old house and having them kill, scream, and reason their way out of his booby traps as if this were a hard-edged sequel to "The Goonies."

In the meantime, Jig volleys face-to-face with a conflicted cop whose teen son is among those lost in the deadly fun house. The cop is played by Donnie Wahlberg, who's overshadowed by Bell, but it's Jigsaw's franchise, so that's probably the point.

Where "Saw II" lags behind in "Saw's" novelty, it takes the lead with its smoother landing, which is again primed to blow the movie wide open, but manages a more compelling job of it than the original's cheat finish. Yet the nagging thing about both movies is that they're more clever and revolting -- first hitting on the nervy idea of an open grave of a thousand syringes, for example, and then chucking a character down into it so we can watch her writhe -- than they are actually chilling.

EW Grade: B-



toggletoggle post by succubus  at Oct 28,2005 11:58am
aaron and i talked about going...probably this weekend



toggletoggle post by slowlypeelingtheflesh   at Oct 28,2005 12:03pm
Saw was pretty cool

I just wanna see people die in interesting circumstances



toggletoggle post by DrinkHardThrashHard  at Oct 28,2005 12:06pm
I loved the first movie, and I'm going to this.



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Oct 28,2005 12:40pm
dont listen to what anyone says. i have read so many reviews making something sound mediocre, or even bad, and i go and it kicks ass. i will see this however, the first one was awesome



toggletoggle post by succubus  at Oct 29,2005 4:31pm
aaron and i went to see it

great flick meh ending



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Oct 29,2005 4:34pm
yeah, the ending was worse that the first.



toggletoggle post by slowlypeelingtheflesh   at Oct 29,2005 4:57pm
the end sucked so bad

saw III will be the worst movie ever made



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